Juan Hernandez Sarabia

Juan Hernandez Sarabia (1880-3 May 1962) was Minister of War of the Second Spanish Republic from 6 August 1936 to 4 September 1936, succeeding Luis Castello Pantoja and preceding Francisco Largo Caballero.

Biography
Juan Hernandez Sarabia was born in 1880 in Salamanca, Spain to a bourgeois family. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel under Miguel Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, and he joined the Republican Antifascist Military Union and then the Frente Popular. Sarabia was appointed Minister of War of the Second Spanish Republic on 6 August 1936 during the Spanish Civil War, but he was later given command of an army and fought at the Battle of Teruel, the Catalonia Offensive, and the Battle of the Ebro. After the war, he fled to France with Manuel Azana and died at the age of 82 in 1962 in exile.